The Junior Kindergarten program at a country garden EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRES focuses on practical life skills with the children. This helps to develop their fine and gross motor skills and introduces new language into their vocabulary.
Examples of activities include:
- Table Scrubbing – aims to develop
order, coordination, concentration and independence. Indirectly
this activity is preparing
the child for writing/reading later on in life as it introduces
left to right movement and up and down sequence.)
- Rice Pouring – aims to develop order,
coordination, control of movement. It’s aim is to introduce
self-help activities for the child. The activity is extended
after the child has mastered rice pouring to include learning
to pour liquids (example of self-help: child is able to serve
own breakfast cereal and milk)
- Pom-pom Tonging – child uses tongs
to transfer pom-poms from one bowl to another. This strengthens
the child’s fingers ready for writing at a later stage.
- Paint mixing – aims to introduce
the primary colours to children. The activity also aids the
child in gaining fine motor control
- Arts and craft activities – finger
painting, modelling play doh, freestyle drawing with crayons,
paper plate artwork etc
- Role Plays – kitchen, baby bathing,
pushing a stroller/trolley
